Each institution is associated with other institutions by various characteristics: geography, athletic conference, religious affiliation, programming, mission, etc.

A list of groups appears below; select a tab to view each group membership and information.

These three groups, common across institutions, are directly informed by IPEDS data:

• AUTO: Created by IPEDS in 2023-24 based on an internal “automatic” grouping process involving Level, Control, Carnegie classification, and other variables.
• CUSTOM: The group of comparison institutions submitted to IPEDS by NDMU in 2023-24.
• REVERSE: The group of institutions that included NDMU in their 2023-24 IPEDS custom group.

The following additional groups were determined by known affiliations of NDMU:

• CATHOLIC: Institutions reporting a religious affiliation of Roman Catholic to IPEDS in 2023-24. 4+ Years, Private NFP.
• CUPA-NFP-2425: NFP institutions that submitted faculty compensation data to CUPA-HR in 2024-25, plus NDMU (for comparison).
• MICUA: Maryland Independent College and University Association (MICUA)
• NDMU-CARNEGIE: Comparison group of NFP instutions with the new Carnegie classification: Professions-focused Undergraduate/Graduate-Doctorate Small.
• NDMU-FACULTY-2022: Peer Comparison Group developed by an internal faculty compensation task force in 2022. Private NFP, 4+ years, degree-granting, large city or large suburban locale, have full-time first-time degree-seeking students, offer both distance and non-distance education, enrollments from 1,000 - 4,999, have graduate enrollment, Carnegie != [baccalaureate college | 4-year special focus | doctoral high research activity], enrollment below 75th %ile of 3,482, expenses below 75th %ile of $72.7M, participated in CUPA-HR in 2021-22.
• NDMU-OIR: NDMU list of peer benchmarking institutions prepared by the Office of Institutional Research (OIR) and approved by the Board of Trustees. The current list was approved in 2022. (Source). Note: Nyack College became Alliance University in 2022, which lost accreditation closed in 2023.
• NDMU-SOP-2022: School of Pharmacy (SOP) Comparison Group developed by an internal faculty compensation task force in 2022. Private NFP, 4+ years, enrolled pharmacy doctoral students in 2020, participated in CUPA-HR, expenses at or below 75th %ile of $72.7M, plus next two smallest intitutions by expenses above 75th %ile to increase group size to 8.
• NURSING-UG≥25: Institutions reporting at least 25% undergraduate completions as nursing (CIP code 51.38) in 2023-24. 4+ Years, Private NFP.